N.Y. Criminal Procedure Law Section 690.25
Search warrants

  • to whom addressable and by whom executable

1.

A search warrant must be addressed to a police officer whose geographical area of employment embraces or is embraced or partially embraced by the county of issuance. The warrant need not be addressed to a specific police officer but may be addressed to any police officer of a designated classification, or to any police officer of any classification employed or having general jurisdiction to act as a police officer in the county.

2.

A police officer to whom a search warrant is addressed, as provided in subdivision one, may execute it pursuant to its terms anywhere in the county of issuance or an adjoining county, and he may execute it pursuant to its terms in any other county of the state in which it is executable if (a) his geographical area of employment embraces the entire county of issuance or (b) he is a member of the police department or force of a city located in such county of issuance.

Source: Section 690.25 — Search warrants; to whom addressable and by whom executable, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/CPL/690.­25 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Dec. 6, 2025).

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